Black Forest Resonances. A NATUR conversation with Hartmut Rosa from imachination projects on Vimeo.

As a sociologist, Hartmut Rosa is basically more concerned with questions of communal coexistence and social action. However, nature also plays a major role in his theoretical reflections time and again. Especially in his theory of resonance, in which Rosa tries to contrast the increasing acceleration of society with a new way of accessing the world, nature plays an important role. If in sociology nature was long considered to be something to be domesticated, nowadays it has to be acknowledged that nature is mutable. This is why Rosa describes it as something intractable that always defies our control. It is a prime example of the fact that man is unabel to check everything. 
In the interview, the sociologist not only explains how he understands nature, but he also refers to the NATUR sculpture. Here Rosa speculates, among other things, about the mutations that will take place with the sculpture after it is handed over to nature: ‘Nature and art enter into an interrelationship beyond control [...] which transforms both, because in fact nature makes things there, finding conditions that it normally does not have. Nature and art enter into an interrelationship beyond control [...] which transforms both, because in fact nature makes things there, finding conditions that it normally does not have. And art becomes an inaccessible other that produces something new that is dynamic. I cannot define a priori what good art is, perhaps not even what thriving nature is, but I need to see and experience it in action. And the NATURE sculpture facilitates this. We can say that nature and culture or nature and art enter into an interrelationship, into a resonance relationship that is open-ended and thus makes unavailability visible. So I guess you also don't know which letter will change first, maybe collapse, maybe a new meaning will emerge?’